Just bought FCP. NOT impressed!

Cooldraft wrote on 3/10/2005, 3:20 PM
Looks like the only thing that I am going to use Final Cut for is LiveType. It may be because I've been using Vegas since V4, or because VEGAS friggin ROCKS. I think it is the latter. I gave into the pressure of everyone around me talking about FCP and VEGAS 'punches' back on EVERYTHING that I have seen in FDP. I do admit that allowing you to select which attributes when pasting Attributes is pretty cool. But other than that, NOT IMPRESSED. Just sharing my experience. There is room for everyone in video.

I hope that I find out how to mix Vegas & Livetype (the only equal that I can't find on PC) somehow....Anyone doing this?

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Jessariah67 wrote on 3/10/2005, 3:33 PM
The biggest problem with the pro/pro-sumer NLE war is that Premiere & FCP have been around longer. Avid's a whole different thing. I've only experienced one Avid person first-hand, and it was like talking to somebody in a cult. She kept refering to the system in the first-person. I expected a red light to come on and tell me Good Morning...

I've personally converted three people from Premiere. Somebody's always gonna have a goodie or two you wish you had, but Vegas is the king, IMHO. It's just a matter of time before Vegas gets the true recognition it deserves.
busterkeaton wrote on 3/10/2005, 3:45 PM
Do you already have Acid? If not, Soundtrack is pretty useful.

p@mast3rs wrote on 3/10/2005, 5:38 PM
Personally, I could care less about who the leader is when it comes to NLE. I use Avid, Vegas, and Premeire Pro. Each offer something that the others dont. While I have only had a glance or two at FCP, I am sure it does well for Mac users. They have that, FCP Express, and Avid to choose from on their OS. Motion is definitely a sweet little program from what I saw. Shake isnt bad either.

It shouldnt matter what you cut on as long as the finsihed product is quality and to the vision you had producing your project.

If I keep only one NLE, hands down Vegas wins. Ease and speed. But man, Avid's media management is second to none. Group editing (multicam) is pretty sweet too.
farss wrote on 3/11/2005, 12:45 AM
Well here's may latest FCP horror story. Hired a firewire drive to a Canadian lady to edit 6 hours of video on her PC laptop. That didn't work out for her so she got the use of a full FCP system and reformatted my drive to HFS+. All went wonderfully, captured and edited away in FCP. So she goes to render the stuff out and FCP has a complete dummy spit. It started reporting dropped frames DURING RENDERING no less. And just to really mess up her work it slipped the audio 2 seconds out of sync. And yes there really were frames dropped, FCP kindly replaced some of them with black frames.
Bob.